DARPA Muon Scanner to Search for Tunnels or Monitor Volcanoes
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#639QN)
The Defense Department and other federal agencies have sought advanced sources that generate gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons, protons, and electrons to enable a variety of scientific, commercial, and defense applications - from medical diagnostics, to scans of cargo containers for dangerous materials, to non-destructive testing of aircraft and their parts to see internal defects. But ...